Category: Nineteenth

The Nineteenth Century- from Romanticism through to Victorianism was full of ideals, visions and experiments for living: enjoy.

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Greetings and farewell from A/Prof Michael Griffith (Literature: Strathfield)

by michaelgriffith1 • June 30, 2022 • 0 Comments

I am retiring after 45 years at ACU. While it certainly sounds a long time, I remember vividly my first days on Castle Hill Campus in 1977 and then the flow of new literature students, through Castle Hill, then Mount Saint Mary and occasionally MacKillop. Every year a wonderful crop of new faces, new enthusiasms!…

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Best Final Summative Blogs for Nineteenth Century Literature 2022

by michaelgriffith1 • June 11, 2022 • 0 Comments

Hi All, it is with some real joy that I can post up these final blogs from one of my last two classes (the other being The Age of Shakespeare). These summative entries proclaim loud and clear that the experience of blogging as part of literature studies has profoundly enhanced our students’ experience of literature.…

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Nineteenth Century Blogs Fourth and Final Topics: Week 10

by michaelgriffith1 • May 11, 2022 • 1 Comment

Please remember that you are permitted to create your own blog topics on subjects related to what we have been studying – if these topics don’t suit! Tolstoy: The Death of Ivan Illych Tolstoy brings us to one of the high points of 19th Century Literature. He explores with such uncompromising depth, issues of profound human…

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Blog 3 Topics for Nineteenth Century Literature- due due Friday 29th April: extended to Monday 1st May

by michaelgriffith1 • April 26, 2022 • 0 Comments

Choose any ONE of the following topics: 1/How do the opening paragraphs of Matthew Arnold’s The Study of Poetry present a view that poetry could solve The Condition of England Question? 2/What makes Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover Beach” such a personal response to the loss of belief in Victorian England? 3/Prepare a digital kit on…

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Show and Tell 19th Century Literature Mid-Semester Blogs… See the best here… THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR AMAZING WORK…

by michaelgriffith1 • April 18, 2022 • 0 Comments

Thanks you Ashleigh for telling us how reading the Romantics has actually changed the way you live your life right now: Best blog on our Art Gallery visit. Thank you Tia for discovering an epiphanic moment in front of Eugene Von Guerard’s Fig Tree: How entering the Art Gallery is like entering the gates of…

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First Blog Topics for 19th Century Literature 2022

by michaelgriffith1 • March 12, 2022 • 0 Comments

Try to stick close to the word length (i.e. 200 words + 50%). While you won’t be penalised for going over the limit you will only get marked on the permitted length. If possible illustrate your blogs (with images either your own or those available on Google), but be sure to identify the source of…

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Grand Finalé for Nineteenth Century ePortfolios for 2021.

by michaelgriffith1 • June 11, 2021 • 0 Comments

Best ePortfolio Summative Entries ENGL200 2021 Andrew Carloss Read Andrew’s fabulous reflection and powerfully illustrated piece on how we in this digital age need to take on board the insights of the Romantics and the Russians in order to survive as human beings! Read Emilee McNaught’s reflections on how her experience is mirrored in the…

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Best Blogs 19th Century Literature 2021- Round 1!

by michaelgriffith1 • May 3, 2021 • 0 Comments

Excellent Peer Reviews: It will be noted that reviews that suggest improvement are well received and have in fact led to improvement in subsequent blogs. Allow some space for your peer to improve- no one’s work is perfect! An excellent peer review, that combines support, insight and gentle recommendations for improvement= thank you Sarah Saud:…

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Blog 3 Nineteenth Century Literature Week 8 2021

by michaelgriffith1 • April 27, 2021 • 0 Comments

Victorianism Thomas Carlyle the great Victorian historian, close friend of Charles Dickens wrote these wonderful words which have been carved in stone in the foyer to the Mitchell ( State Library) in Sydney. For those of us studying Romanticism, Charles Dickens and Victorianism, these words have a special resonance. They remind us (in this forgetful digital age) of how important…

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Best Blogs from 19th Century Literature 2020

by michaelgriffith1 • June 18, 2020 • 2 Comments

Overall, an amazing feast of student talent in reflecting on how 19th Century Literature can shed so much light on core issues of human experience in the 21st Century. Thank you All!! Here is one student Alicia Ticchio reflecting on her semester, writing during the Covid 19 Pandemic, when all studies were on-line using Zoom…

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The Importance of Being Earnest 2020

by michaelgriffith1 • May 4, 2020 • 0 Comments

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The Victorian Age

by michaelgriffith1 • April 6, 2020 • 0 Comments

Today we began exploring the period between 1837 and 1901. This was a time of huge industrial expansion and a widening rift between those who had everything and those who had nothing. This lecture explores the way these concerns was expressed in the literature of the age. Audio Recording: Lecture for Week 8: Audio: NEW…

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Art Gallery of NSW “Virtual” tour of Enlightenment/ Romantic/ Victorian Art and its links with Literature of the Age.

by michaelgriffith1 • March 30, 2020 • 0 Comments

Hello All, here you can find the slides we used for our Zoom lecture (available in LEO) and you can also find an audio version of the same lecture (in 2 parts) – enjoy! In the tutorial this week we looked closely at the way Shelley, both in his poetry and his prose exemplified the…